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1 online resource (xvii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Mexicans on the American screen: the discursive construction of ethnic stereotypes in contemporary film and television / Christoph Schubert -- Remember the Alamo: the persistence of cultural stereotypes in literary and filmic representations of the Mexican American borderlands / Jutta Zimmermann -- Racial stereotyping and performing Blackness: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Neighbors as post-Black play / Frank Obenland -- Between the need to fit in and the desire to stand out: race, gender, and sexuality in Celeste Ng's Everything I never told you / Brygida Gasztold -- The Palestinians and the Jews: "Disrespected" neighbo(u)rs in Jason Sherman's Nathans plays / Albert Rau -- Gold Mountain and the yellow peril: literary representations of Chinese Canadian relations / Eva Gruber -- Anti-Irish, Welsh and Scottish propaganda in eleventh- and twelfth-century Anglo-Norman writings / Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup -- "Grand though it might seem in one way, all of it was petty": sectarian conflict and neighbourly relations in short fiction about the Irish troubles / Eva Orth -- Of foreigners and friends: music, art and militarism / Alan Riach -- History and memory: gendering the other in Jyotirmoyee Devi's The river churning and Amitav Gosh's The shadow lines / Nandini Saha -- "Dwindling into symbols": the politics of stereotyping after the Indian Partition and 9/11 / Christoph Singer -- Good and bad neighbours: metaphors and world making in U.S.-American, German, and Polish literatures / Paula Wojcik -- Between (semi-) Orientalisation and (imaginative) colonisation: on othering the ally in Polish wartime recollections / Joanna Witkowska -- The "Other" in contemporary Slovene literature from the Trieste region: a case study of national stereotypes in minority literatures / Ana Toroš -- Female rebels undoing otherness in Faith Akin's Auf der anderen Seite and Gegen die wand / Funda Bilgen Steinberg |
| Summary |
Neighbourly relations frequently position a ""self"" against an ""Other"". This is the case for both individuals and nations, and, indeed, within the various cultural groups of a nation. Our racial, ethnic, social, or gender identities are often created in demarcating ourselves by stereotyping the Other. Disrespect of the immediate neighbour based on stereotypical pre-conceptions and cultural biases may lie dormant for a long time and then, as shown in recent conflicts around the globe, suddenly surface due to changed economic and political conditions. Media, including films and fictional as we |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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National characteristics in literature.
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National characteristics in motion pictures.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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Cultural studies.
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Media studies.
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History.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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National characteristics in literature
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National characteristics in motion pictures
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rosenthal, Caroline, 1969- editor.
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Volkmann, Laurenz, editor
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Zagratzki, Uwe, 1954- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781527514751 |
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1527514757 |
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